7:2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine,

“What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

7:3 Then Esther the queen answered,

“If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

The king in his anger, understanding of the gallows which Haman had made for Mordecai, causes him to be hanged thereon.

7:7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said,